Description
Scriptable is an automation tool that enables you to write scripts that integrates with native features of iOS such as files, calendars, reminders, documents and much more.
An extensive support for Siri Shortcuts enables you to present images, tables and more in Siri as well as making Siri read out loud a text when you run a script from a Siri Shortcut.
Your scripts can be run from the Scriptable app, from a Siri Shortcut or from other apps using the share sheet extensive or Scriptable’s URL schemes.
Here’s a few examples of scripts you could create:
- Ask Siri whether a web service is down.
- Postpone the next event in your calendar half an hour.
- Check what is currently on TV.
- Manage a list of movies you would like to watch.
- Upload files to an image optimizer and store a URL to the optimized image.
- Receive a notification with the weather report every morning.
- Create todos with prefilled data in your favorite todo app using URL schemes.
Features include:
- Write and run JavaScript.
- Auto complete of variable names, functions, keywords and properties as you type.
- Access lots of native iOS features from your JavaScript code, including managing files, calendars, reminders, contacts, photos, location, pasteboard, web views and more.
- Extensive support for Siri Shortcuts enabling you to present images, tables, websites, HTML and more in Siri as well as making Siri read out loud a text.
- Support for input and output parameters in Siri Shortcuts.
- Easily schedule rich notifications to run your scripts periodically.
- Work with files and directories from third party apps using File Bookmarks.
- Synchronise scripts to all of your devices using iCloud Drive.
- Scripts are stored as plain JavaScript files and can be browsed using the Files app.
- Assign one of over 800 glyphs and a color to a script to easily identify it in your directory of scripts.
- Run scripts directly on your Home screen using widgets.
- Run a script by 3D touching the app icon.
- Run a script from a share sheet and process the inputs.
- Schedule notifications and run a script directly from a notification.
- URL schemes enabling you to run scripts from other apps.
- Support for x-callback-url enabling advanced integration with other apps that support x-callback-url.
- Export and share scripts.
- Example scripts helping you get started creating your own scripts.
- Extensive documentation for all the native APIs you can use in your scripts. Available offline in the app and online on docs.scriptable.app.
- View the documentation in a separate window on iPad.
- Support for dark mode.
- Customise the editor to your liking.
What's New in Version 1.5
- New: The new ListWidget API can be used to create widgets that display a list of texts and images. These widgets can be displayed on the Home screen on iOS 14.
- New: The new "News in Widget" example script shows how to build a widget. You find the example script in the in-app settings.
- New: Scriptable's Shortcuts actions now use the new in-app intent handling on iOS 14. By doing that, the actions can now use file bookmarks and can utilise more memory. Please visit the in-app settings to learn more about file bookmarks.
- New: Scripts have new colors to better fit in with modern versions of iOS.
- New: Scripts can now be added to the Home screen from the script's settings.
- New: The response from executing a Request now contains the cookies set by the server.
- New: Use the new titleFont and subtitleFont properties on UITableCell to set the font of titles and subtitles in tables.
- New: Use the new setFont() function on DrawContext to specify the font to be used when drawing text to the context.
- Deprecated: setFontSize() on DrawContext have been deprecated. Use the new setFont() function instead.
- Bugfix: Sometimes getImage() on DrawContext would throw an error when nothing but a text had been drawn to the context.